طلوع اسلام

کنار از زاہداں برگیروبے باکانہ ساغر کشپس از مدت ازیں شاخ کہن بانگ ہزار آمد

English translation

Withdraw from the ascetics and fearlessly draw the wine cup; after long nightingale’s song from this old branch has come!

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 68 of 72 in “⁨طلوع اسلام⁩” (The Renaissance Of Islam) in the section Poems of Period - 1908-30, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (⁨بانگِ درا⁩), published in 1924.

Read it in the poem

۶۸ / ۷۲